This Article Was Written By An A.I.
Are Writers Safe From Artificial Intelligence?
A.I. has come a long way in what it can produce. I will give some article prompts to the artificial writing program InferKit to find out advanced have computers gotten and could they perhaps replace real writers?
Prompt 1: My Break-Up Story
I broke up with what I thought was my soul mate.
We had dated for two and a half years and we had made a commitment to each other.
It was a shotgun wedding — we were married on January 27, 2003 and I found out that my soon — to — be ex — husband had been cheating on me for the past two and a half years.
We separated in August of 2003 and we have been divorced since February of 2004.
So, anyway, that’s the latest bit of saddness that has had me down for a couple of days.
I’m trying to move on — even though I don’t really have a clue how to do that!
Honestly not bad. For coming up with a compelling summary of someone’s break-up we got some favourable results.
It is definitely compelling and could pass as a real person; giving out specific dates, changing between talking objectively about what happened and personal thoughts of what they’re feeling is a lot like how real people would write.
Now to clear this up, this doesn’t mean that this is truly sentient. All it’s done is analyze millions to potentially billions of texts to see how the average way of writing is given a prompt. That said, if you were to try out the same thing you would get different results, so give it a shot yourself.
Prompt 2: Life Advice
The best life lesson I have learnt is that the harder we try to please others, the more dissatisfied we become. It’s all about individual personal growth. Nobody is perfect and we don’t have to be. We are all given an equal opportunity to grow, to challenge ourselves, to innovate, and to think beyond what we currently know. The struggle is real, but success is more attainable when we make it our priority.
What does money mean to you?
Money means security. Money means peace of mind. Money means power. Money means recognition. I understand money has its uses, but ultimately, there is much more to life.
Tell me about your biggest accomplishment to date.
I’m sure every entrepreneur would love to brag about something they have done right or a milestone they reached in business. I would say that one of the biggest accomplishments in my career was starting Kno.Me, which was my first real business when I was just 23. It was an e-commerce site that targeted visitors in East Africa. Over time, it transformed into a large company with offices in London and Rwanda. Today, Kno.Me is one of the biggest tech companies in Rwanda.
Wow! The result from this prompt actually made me take a minute to reflect and think about what it had to say. Legitimately it seems to have great advice.
Here is also where the flaws of A.I writing, at least currently are starting to show. Even with multiple attempts, the A.I is unable to constantly stick to one topic. It can’t hold it out for long before it changes to something else.
This text is pretty apparent that it was written by an A.I, but if you only showed some parts of it individually, I don’t think people would be able to tell it was a program.
Prompt 3: About Me
About me. I write book reviews for Sadeo BookReviews.
I have been writing since I was 16, I have published articles in magazines and on websites but have started writing book reviews since I was inspired by some of the great reviews others were writing about.
I love music and am a former radio DJ.
View my complete profile
I recently read this fabulous book by Sara Ingelhart.
It is a wonderful story about the author’s relationship with her father, told in letters they wrote to each other throughout their lives.
As I read the letters I felt as though I was in on the…
My Book Review on “Good Girl” by Gina ByrnesI haven’t written a book review in forever.
I don’t know why, but I have just been so tired.
Tired of everything.
It is weird.
This result was very interesting. The problem stated before that the A.I wasn’t able to stay on the topic still held. However, it twisted it at the end. Finishing the prompt of what a person would say to justify why it was so erratic could potentially make it pass as if a human wrote it.
Saying it was tired saved it at the end.
My Thoughts
I don’t think we will entirely see A.I replacing writers, especially not now. I do see them potentially writing a news script or the newspaper after being given information and informative articles. But I think that articles that need a personal touch of authenticity won’t be gone.
We might get to a point where it may be smart enough, but that isn’t right now. So write to your heart’s content and write with passion, that’s the difference!
